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*ENSLAVED *AFRICANS please
And no the first enslaved Africans did not arrive in 1619. The first enslaved Africans exiled to British mainland North America was Jamestown. The first enslaved Africans arrived in South Carolina in 1526 under the Spanish.
Long before there was a St. Augustine, the enslaved Africans who had arrived in 1526 became the first permanent non-native people to settle and remain in what would become the United States.
